Custom MX and A Records

Every registered domain has no less than 2 Name Server records that show where it is hosted i.e. by using these records you direct your domain to the servers of a certain hosting company. That way, you have both your site and your e-mails handled by the exact same provider. On the lower level of the Domain Name System (DNS), nevertheless, there are lots of other records, such as A and MX. The former shows which server handles the website for a given Internet domain and is always an IP address (123.123.123.123), while the latter indicates which server handles the e-mails and is always an alphanumeric string (mx1.domain.com). As an example, whenever you enter a domain in your web browser, your request is sent through the global DNS system to the provider whose NS records the domain name uses and from there you will be directed to the servers of a different service provider if you have set an IP address of the latter as an A record for your Internet domain. Having independent records for the website and the e-mails means that you could have your site and your e-mails with 2 different companies if you would like.

Custom MX and A Records in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you want to switch either your site or your emails to an alternative provider, it is going to take you literally only 2 clicks to do this. Our Hepsia CP comes with an easy-to-use DNS Records tool, where all your domain names and subdomains will be listed alphabetically and you're going to be able to see and edit the A and/or MX records for any of them. If you want to use a different email provider and they ask you to create more MX records than the default two, it is not going to take more than a couple of mouse clicks either to add them. Also you can set different latency for these records and the lower the latency, the higher the priority a particular MX record is going to have. The propagation of each record that you change or set up isn't going to take more than several hours and if required, you will also be able to set the so-called Time-To-Live value, which shows how long a record will stay active after it is modified or deleted.